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Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned
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Daniel Lemire's QCon talk on how simdjson parses gigabytes of JSON per second. It covers SIMD vectorization, branch prediction and the lessons learned building a fast parser.
HN points to it as the best explanation of simdjson internals and of why fast parsing is rarely disk-bound.
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